{"id":31383,"date":"2024-01-11T07:16:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T07:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31383"},"modified":"2024-01-11T07:17:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T07:17:25","slug":"ono-scholar-presses-to-give-voice-to-the-israeli-victims-of-the-october-7th-attacks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/ono-scholar-presses-to-give-voice-to-the-israeli-victims-of-the-october-7th-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Scholar Presses to Give Voice to the Israeli Victims of the October 7th Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"537\" class=\"wp-image-31384 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Dana-Pugach-1.23-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Dana-Pugach-1.23-1.jpeg 822w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Dana-Pugach-1.23-1-300x196.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Dana-Pugach-1.23-1-768x502.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<h4>Ono Scholar Presses to Give Voice to the Israeli Victims of the October 7<sup>th<\/sup> Attacks<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Prof. Dana Pugach, director of the Noga Center for Crime Victims at Ono Academic College, noted, in her opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post, that while a debate is occurring in Israel about whether or not existing Israeli law is sufficient to prosecute the Hamas terrorists who committed the October 7<sup>th<\/sup> attacks, we must never lose sight of the terrorists\u2019 victims.\u00a0 Pugach wrote that Israel \u201cmust see the victims and consider their needs at every stage and decision.\u201d She continued, \u201cThis is not only a legal obligation but also a moral and societal one.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Pugach critiqued the government for delaying in the exercise of the victims&#8217; rights and termed this \u00a0&#8220;secondary victimization.&#8221; These rights include getting vital information and being given opportunity to participate in criminal proceedings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As part of her work on this subject, Pugach is a driving force in the Lilach Project (Accessibility to Justice for the Victims of the October 7 Attack), named after Lilach Kipnis \u2013 who was massacred along with her husband, Avitar, and another family member.\u00a0 The Lilach Project was formed in a collaboration between the families of the kidnapped and missing and Ono Academic College, and it includes a central support organization for victims of the attacks and the sexual assault.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>To read the entire article, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-781484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-781484<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ono Scholar Presses to Give Voice to the Israeli Victims of the October 7th Attacks Prof. Dana Pugach, director of the Noga Center for Crime Victims at Ono Academic College, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":31384,"menu_order":260,"template":"","class_list":["post-31383","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories_news-updates_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}